But after selling the business in 1973, he forsook both lighting and design by retiring to Lake Como to pursue another passion, dealing in rare stamps, until his death in 1985.
For a while he shared a house in Richmond upon Thames, London, with the family of his son John and, forsaking both philosophy and politics, dedicated himself to writing short stories.
Paul Starobin of The National Journal reported that at 1 30 a.m. at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge the other night, Bill Clinton was forsaking both the South Beach diet and Mr. Kerry (whose success, after all, would impede a Hillary ascension in 2008).
Commentary abounded that a significant cultural shift had taken place and that a generation of men was steadily quitting television-viewing, forsaking both network and cable programs in favor of video games, DVD's and the Internet.
In "The Counterlife," Philip Roth's novel of clashing and alternate identities, Nathan Zuckerman leaves his home in London to track down his brother, a New Jersey dentist who has forsaken both his family and Wendy, his highly compliant office assistant, and joined a settlement near Hebron.
As an atypical drow (dark elf), Drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people and their home in the Underdark, in the drow city of Menzoberranzan.
Most offended against Dryden, who criticised those who took "the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both taking only some general hints from the original .Mr Hughes was an exception.
Many people feel that they have been forsaken by both parties.
Trump spoke directly to voters who felt abandoned by the system and forsaken by both parties.
Rosenquist started to go wrong in the seventies by forsaking specificity of both subject and technique.
